Trump Calls Cruz An ‘Anchor Baby in Canada’

“I don’t think you have to give up your liberty for a false sense of security”, said Sen. “When you’re treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights”, he said, referring to his row with Fox.

In all, Trump commanded 36 percent of the Twitter traffic during the debate, according to the social media company.

And a month before: “I like Ted Cruz a lot”.

On the other hand, Mr. Trump’s absence did not produce the big drop-off in viewers from other recent debates that Mr. Trump had suggested would happen.

Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Iowa on January 23, 2016. Trump made a decision to withdraw after Fox News refused to drop debate host Megyn Kelly, whom he accused of bias.

According to a Fox News statement, Trump stated he would attend the debate in exchange for a contribution of $5 million from the station toward his charities.

Plus, Trump kept reminding people all week that Fox News Channel ratings would suffer without him there, and it turns out he was right. Marco Rubio than front-runner Donald Trump. Ted Cruz over his citizenship status on Friday, calling his fellow GOP presidential candidate an “anchor baby in Canada”. “I know you like to argue about the rules, but we’re going to conduct the debate”, Wallace said.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, a frequent Trump target, said: “I kind of miss Donald Trump; he was a teddy bear to me”. The paper endorsed his rival New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie past year, and he railed against its publisher Joe McQuaid “a bad person”, “incompetent”, “a psycho”, and an “ant”.

The final week before the Iowa caucuses featured a GOP debate without the GOP front-runner.

In one example, Colbert showed Trump saying: “I love Iowa, we’re done really well here” followed by clips of Trump saying: “How stupid are the people of Iowa!”

Trump said he boycotted the Fox debate because “when somebody doesn’t treat you properly, you got to be tough, you got to be strong, you cant let them push you around”. On Friday, he showed he was already looking past that first contest as he campaigned in New Hampshire.

“I didn’t want to be here, to be honest, I wanted to be about five minutes away” at the debate, Trump told the crowd. “I think we can all sympathize here, that it’s nearly impossible for a Republican to get a fair hearing on Fox“.

Perhaps a more fair comparison would be CNN’s December 15 debate, which had a 12.2 household rating and 18 million total viewers. “My only takeaway was you Republicans are so dumb: Megyn Kelly should be your candidate!”